Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Testing Experience
Programming languages
Automation frameworks and tools
Databases
Cloud and DevOps
Software
Soft Skills
Certification
Languages
Timeline
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Arthur Manasyan

Principal Quality Assurance Engineer

Summary

QA leader with over 12 years of experience driving quality excellence across web, mobile, and backend systems. Built and led high-performing QA teams while implementing enterprise-wide testing strategies and automation frameworks. Experienced in mentoring QA professionals and establishing quality practices across organizations.


As Principal QA Engineer in fintech, I lead test automation initiatives for distributed microservices architecture on Google Cloud. I developed comprehensive test strategies leveraging automation pyramid principles and established testing frameworks with CI/CD integration, enabling early detection of regressions across multiple engineering teams.


Skilled in building automated testing frameworks using Python and JavaScript, with expertise in API testing, component testing, and end-to-end automation. Strong focus on developing QA talent, optimizing testing processes, and ensuring quality delivery through close collaboration with stakeholders.

Overview

2025
2025
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Principal Quality Assurance Engineer

Questrade Armenia
11.2020 - 11.2024

Test Strategy & Architecture: Developed and implemented test automation strategy for distributed microservices on Google Cloud, leveraging automation pyramid to ensure comprehensive coverage.

Pioneered Component Testing Framework: Designed and implemented shift-left testing approach for microservices in TypeScript adopted by several engineering teams that helped reduce manual efforts and speed up development cycles.

Pipeline Integration: Collaborated with DevOps team to design and implement CI pipeline for automated component testing, reducing manual effort and ensuring faster feedback loops.

Test Utilities: Maintained and enhanced a library of JavaScript utilities to support and streamline automation efforts.

Development Tools: Established seamless local test environment setup using Tilt for efficient development and testing workflows.

QA Team Leadership: Built and led a team of QA engineers, fostering high performance through standards implementation and continuous improvement initiatives.

QA Chapter Head: As one of the Heads of QA Chapter, leading initiatives to improve onboarding processes, facilitate knowledge transfer sessions, and foster a culture of collaboration and continuous learning.

Quality Development: Conducted successful internship programs and mentored QA talent, while authoring comprehensive testing standards adopted across engineering teams.

Production Quality: Facilitated microservice production readiness by improving logging, error handling, and monitoring. Established Datadog dashboards, alerts, and SLI/SLOs to enhance observability and ensure operational reliability.

Test Lead - Health Care Platform (iOS app integrated to web portal)

Macadamian
04.2012 - 11.2020
  • Participated in the interview process
  • Worked with the Product team to improve the quality of AC and user stories
  • Optimized test process to compensate the shortage of test resources
  • Created test data generation scripts in JavaScript
  • Planned and organized creation of e2e scenarios for regression testing

Automation Lead - Network Orchestration Software (Angular 8 application)

Macadamian
  • Created an automation framework in Robot Framework and Python
  • Defined strategy for UI automation of Integration between web application and mock API service
  • Implemented Python library to support data setup/teardown layer
  • Implemented automated UI tests in Robot Framework
  • Monitored test execution results in CI pipeline and investigated failures

Automation Lead - Health Care Solution

Macadamian
  • Defined strategy for API automation of Integration between medical device and desktop portal backends
  • Implemented automated Integration tests in ReadyAPI
  • Developed custom library of helper functions in Groovy to support automation in ReadyAPI
  • Implemented workaround to avoid false code conflicts in ReadyAPI version control
  • Developed scripts in ReadyAPI/Groovy to generate test data for UAT testing

Automation Team Lead - Automation of JS libraries

Macadamian
  • Lead team of 3 developers, provided QA perspective
  • Defined test standards for test quality and consistency
  • Designed test approach for automating complex features - unstable Network conditions
  • Performed code reviews in JavaScript

QA Lead - .NET SOA with client integrations

Macadamian
  • Assigned tasks to QAs and identified test approach on complex features
  • Held weekly QA meetings, discussed improvements
  • Tested various technical features such as ETL/Reports, Service broker queues, Log Aggregator, deployment scripts
  • Wrote test tools in Python to support manual testing
  • Planned and organized release regression test with Dev and QA teams
  • Ran post-deployment smoke test in Production

Education

Master's Degree - Informatics and Applied Mathematics

Russian-Armenian Slavonic State University
01.2003 - 01.2008

Testing Experience

  • Backend automation
  • Web testing
  • Mobile testing
  • API testing
  • Test design
  • Test planning
  • Exploratory testing
  • Web automation testing
  • Unit testing
  • Compatibility testing
  • Accessibility testing

Programming languages

  • JavaScript/TypeScript
  • Python
  • SQL

Automation frameworks and tools

  • Selenium WebDriver
  • Robot Framework
  • Pytest/unittest
  • Jest
  • Mocha
  • Supertest
  • Testcontainers
  • Tilt

Databases

  • MS SQL Server
  • PostgreSQL
  • SQLite

Cloud and DevOps

Google Cloud Platform

  • Cloud Firestore
  • Cloud Pub/Sub
  • Cloud Storage
  • BigQuery


Containerization & Development

  • Docker/ Docker Compose
  • Tilt
  • Kubernetes


Observability & Monitoring

  • Datadog (Dashboards, APM, Logs)
  • SLI/SLO Implementation


CI/CD

  • GitLab CI/CD Pipelines
  • Pipeline Design & Optimization

Software

  • WebStorm
  • Postman
  • Git/GitHub/GitLab
  • Zephyr for Jira
  • JIRA
  • Confluence
  • Datadog

Soft Skills

  • Cross-functional Collaboration
  • Leadership
  • Communication
  • Mentorship
  • Problem solving

Certification

ISTQB Foundation Level Certificate

Languages

  • English (Proficient)
  • Armenian (Native)
  • Russian (Fluent)

Timeline

Principal Quality Assurance Engineer

Questrade Armenia
11.2020 - 11.2024

Test Lead - Health Care Platform (iOS app integrated to web portal)

Macadamian
04.2012 - 11.2020

Master's Degree - Informatics and Applied Mathematics

Russian-Armenian Slavonic State University
01.2003 - 01.2008

Automation Lead - Network Orchestration Software (Angular 8 application)

Macadamian

Automation Lead - Health Care Solution

Macadamian

Automation Team Lead - Automation of JS libraries

Macadamian

QA Lead - .NET SOA with client integrations

Macadamian
Arthur ManasyanPrincipal Quality Assurance Engineer